Toilet Overflow - Valve Position?
Yesterday I made the mistake of flushing my toilet a second time after it clogged. I wasn’t aware until almost an hour later that the toilet was continuously overflowing. An abundance of water leaked out to the adjoining rooms, through my wooden floors of my 2nd floor and down to the basement. I was amazed…
Yesterday I made the mistake of flushing my toilet a second time after it clogged. I wasn’t aware until almost an hour later that the toilet was continuously overflowing. An abundance of water leaked out to the adjoining rooms, through my wooden floors of my 2nd floor and down to the basement. I was amazed how the water traveled in totally different directions throughout the floors. As the water was leaking I panicky turned the shutoff valve in all directions until the overflow stopped, and now don’t know the correct positioning. Presently when I now attempt to flush the toilet it doesn’t flush, but instead it pumps water into the toilet and 10 minutes later the toilet is completely empty. I definitely don’t want a recap of yesterday’s event. What positioning of the valve would correct this problem?
That’s wrong, Joe from Brooklyn.
Gas valves turn the same as water valves with the exception of some main service shut offs that require a wrench to turn.
Just remember if you have any National Grid or Barbecue issues that it’s the opposite with gas valves. (Left is tight, right is loose)
Yes, WonTon…you don’t want to get a pray of water in your face that’s meant for somewhere else!!!!
Be careful which button you press on the Toto toilet, DIBS….
“Lefty loosey, righty tighty” is the way they taught women who worked in factories during WWII.
That said, it sounds like the float is getting stuck inside the bowl. It’s often just a situation of needing to be bent one way or another so it doesn’t get hung on some other part. But, I’ve never been inside a Toto toilet and I would suspect that they are more complicated than a plain od American toilet.
Now a new problem….. When the water seeped down from the 2nd to the 1st floor I believe that it traveled between the sheet-rock and the 2 x 4’s and I noticed alittle water dripping from the top of the door casing. NOW I just noticed that the door won’t close. Could the wood have expanded? Is there anyway to rectify the problem?
This is a one year old Toto . Should I than just turn it clockwise all the way and than turn it mid point between off and on?
The problem should have nothing to do with the ‘position’ of the shutoff valve, which obviously needs to be ‘on’ for the toilet to work. Unless OP is talking about another valve.
Sounds like the toilet flushing mechanism is shot.
If you have new-style valves, aligned w/ the pipe is open, perpendicular to it is closed.